Game Engines Database

Defold Engine: Migration tips from Godot

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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors

Jul 10, 2024 1

App Game Kit Studio

Vulkan powered cross-platform coding

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Editor

Storm Engine

Game engine behind Sea Dogs, Pirates of the Caribbean and Age of Pirates games

Blitz3D

Blitz3D is al older, DX7-Based Dialect of Basic. Its sports an easy level of entry but can still get relatively powerful with practice.

microStudio

microStudio is a free, open source game engine online

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Editor

SnaX

SnaX is a fast and lightweight development tool for 3D-graphics applications based on a real-time, visual programming concept

3D Agnostic Visual Programming Editor

Ambient

A runtime for building high-performance multiplayer games and 3D applications, powered by WebAssembly, Rust and WebGPU

3D Agnostic

C4 Engine

Battle tested game engine with visual scripting for 3D games

3D Agnostic Visual Programming Editor

Simple

An editing tool, language, and runtime for creating gameplay using a mouse-driven scripting tool

Action 3D Visual Programming Editor

Heaps.io

A mature cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games. It was used in major titles like Dead Cells, Dune Spice Wars, Northgard and Wartales.

2D 3D Agnostic

A-Frame

A web framework for building virtual reality experiences

3D Agnostic AR/VR

Urho3D

Urho3D is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

2D 3D Agnostic

LÖVR

A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences

3D Agnostic AR/VR

Tramway SDK

Software library and tools for making the Tramway Drifting and Dungeon Exploration Simulator 2022 and similar applications. Similar to Quake, GoldSrc or Source engines, but it uses polygonal soup instead of BSPs and supports level streaming.

3D Editor

CRYENGINE

A powerful game development platform to create world-class entertainment experiences

3D Agnostic Editor

Hotham

Hotham is an attempt to create a lightweight, high performance game engine for standalone VR headsets, like the Oculus Quest 2

3D Agnostic AR/VR

Irrlicht Engine

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source realtime 3D engine written in C++

3D Agnostic AR/VR

Game Creation Framework

Lost Astronaut's Game Creation Framework: A massive 1800+ class 1400 file extravaganza of OpenGL, WinAPI, OpenAL and many other features, written in Visual Studio for over a decade! The project seeks to port to a Linux/Winux environment from Visual Studio.

2D 3D

ZeroEngine

And engine to make simulations of any kind, ranging from simple prototypes to professional 2D and 3D games, simple physics or graphics demonstrations to robust, realistic simulations

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Education Editor

Echo Engine

Echo is a game engine which uses many industry-standards for game development

2D 3D Agnostic Visual Programming

Amethyst

Data-driven game engine written in Rust

2D 3D Agnostic ECS

Welder Engine

A cross platform game engine that can be used to make simulations of any kind, ranging from simple prototypes to professional 2D and 3D games, simple physics or graphics demonstrations to robust, realistic simulations.

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Education Editor

Superpowers

Free and opensource 2D+3D game making for indies

2D 3D Agnostic Editor

limon Engine

Limon is a multi platform 3D game engine mainly focusing on first person games. Focus of its development is ease of use and ease of study.

3D Editor

Polycode

Polycode is a cross-platform framework for creative code

3D Agnostic Editor

Source Engine

A 3D game engine created by Valve in 2004, and has been used by Valve, third-party companies, and countless community mods by people around the globe

3D Agnostic Visual Programming Editor

AllBinary Platform

AllBinary Game Engine is a multi-platform game engine in Java. Entire game engine is also in 100% Kotlin. Supports: Android (Without native libraries in Java or Kotlin), HTML5, J2ME (MIDP), Windows Native (Avian), and J2SE (Java or Kotlin).

2D 3D Agnostic